The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-03-17

them. He appeared to think himself the
regular attorney for the Knights of Labor
He is shrewd, bright and smart and well
versed IN parliamentary tactics. He Of
tends the better class Of Republicans by
his Cheap John politica rmethods Never
theless they have to swallow him, for ii is
such men that shape he policy of the party.
nthe House New Hanover was represented
by two colored men, Holloway and Howe.
They We're among the best colored men in
the Legislature and we believe, faithful
| ly and honestly represented their con
stituents.
The recognized leader of the Republican
| party III the House was Tyre York Of the
| county of Wilkes-a Republican of Repub-
llcans, Demagogue of Demagogues
Some taffy-sllnger penny-aliner wrote of
him mo man IN North Carolina has rem
dered the State more service than Tyre
York" Shades of Vance, Merrimon,
Scales, and Jarvis defend us. In what has
that service consisted? During the war
he was ''UniOn man" and didn't fight.
After the war he was a Democrat until he
came to realize that the Democrats would
not send him to Congress Then he be-
came an Independent and the sure stages
of the ordinary ''Independent" wave land
ing their nomination for Governor He
now poses as the friend Of the working
man ard in the last House tried to be their
champion. He was, more than any other
man, responsible for the waste of time in
the first weeks of the session because of
his abortive attempts to gain notoriety by
discussing National issues. He cost the
State thousands of dollars that way.
Although his craftsmanship is of the five
cent order he voted for every proposition
to take money out OF the Treasury to help
individuals, but with niggardliness that
is not found in true statesmen, he sought
to save money in ''picayunish' ways, for
instance: He favored giving 600 convicts
equal to an appropriation Of $75, 600 a
year, to private corporation, when ad-
mlttlng all they claimed 400 would fill the
bill, but opposed the small amount neces-
sary to heat the capitol and public build
lngs. He voted both for and agains1 the
Agricultural and Mechanical College in
his desire to please all. Whenever the
railroads wanted anything or didn't want
anything DR.. York was their champion
and to offset the charge that he was the
tool of corporations and believed in ex-
travagance, he voted against any increase
Of accommodations for the insane
His record was the record of his party
AlC Is Sooo ~ DllSIi NlidCh ana play UcIDd-
gogue until the people fad him out The
same Is true of the Republican party.
He is totally careless how much he votes
to 20 porations- he saves by giving mig
gardly appropriations 10 needed objects
The same is true of the Republican party
He has cheek and the capacity to look
through five cent appropriations-he is
totally incompetent to grasp the financial
questions of the State or to direct its poll
cy- The same is true OF the Republican
party.
He made no inquiry concerning legisla-
ton will this help the State?' His in
qulry was always ''can the Republicans
fool the people and make capital for SSS2'
The same is true Of the great majority Of
his followers.
Our deliberate conviction, after watch-
ing the career of the man and the policy
OF the party as shaped by him in the House,
is that the State would be in the hands
not only of incapable men, but of reckless
men should the calamity of Republican
success befall North Carolina. The good
and slow men in the party would have no
influence to stop ignorant conoclasm with
such men as DR.. York and his rabble at
the helm Of State. Never until now had
we beeh sufficiently and profoundly graft
fed AT his defeat in 1884